Mills Anne C, Chillock Cynthia A, Edelman Harold, Mills Shannon E
Defense Human Resources Activity, Civilian Personnel Management Service, Arlington, Virginia, USA.
Compend Contin Educ Dent. 2005 Mar;26(3 Suppl):14-9.
Dental offices and clinics are subject to the same general safety requirements as other workplaces. Current guidelines, inspections, education, and training focus on infectious disease as the major workplace hazard for dental health care personnel (DHCP). However, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited an increasing variety and number of general safety hazards during inspections of dental offices. A review of the general safety requirements for personal protective equipment and fire safety as they relate to DHCP follows. The authors discuss the responsibility of both employers and employees to perform workplace hazard evaluation and to implement education, engineering controls, and work practice controls to minimize their exposure to recognized and emerging workplace hazards.
牙科诊所和门诊与其他工作场所一样，需遵循相同的一般安全要求。当前的指南、检查、教育和培训将传染病视为牙科医护人员（DHCP）在工作场所面临的主要危害。然而，职业安全与健康管理局在对牙科诊所的检查中发现，一般安全危害的种类和数量日益增加。以下是对与牙科医护人员相关的个人防护设备和消防安全的一般安全要求的综述。作者讨论了雇主和雇员在进行工作场所危害评估以及实施教育、工程控制和工作实践控制以尽量减少他们接触已识别和新出现的工作场所危害方面的责任。
